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Credit where it is due. The Prime Minister's robust defence of his government's net zero agenda in today's Telegraph is hugely welcome and suggests that the government's much anticipated Energy Security Strategy could deliver a huge boost to the UK's...

The scale of the changes required to end European reliance on Russian fossil fuels are unprecedented and far bigger than many realise - what is needed is an economic war effort

"Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the problem is, I don't know which half," as John Wanamaker famously said. Some may question the effectiveness of advertising, but the truth is that a multi-billion dollar industry is not built solely...

The net zero transition is a finance problem. The requirement for significant sums of upfront capital that will unlock massive long term benefits is the challenge at the heart of the climate crisis.

Yesterday, a major new report emerged that sought to question the credibility of many leading corporate net zero targets. Such reports are both increasingly frequent and broadly welcome. If net zero strategies are to be of any use it is vital they are...

Those pesky young people made headlines again over the weekend thanks to their pig headed refusal to listen to Kirsty Allsopp, cancel their £7 a month Netflix subscription and magically afford the £70,000 deposit for a studio apartment

The attacks on the government's net zero agenda are now reportedly coming from within the Cabinet, but vague criticisms of climate action do not add up to a credible alternative plan

Can we trust Larry Fink? It is a proxy for one of the biggest questions in the world right now. Can capitalism reform itself to avert a rolling climate catastrophe or is a fundamentally different economic model urgently required?

There is so much uncertainty attached to almost every aspect of the net zero transition - the pace at which it will proceed, the balance of different technologies, the role of offsets, the political challenges it will face - that when you find a genuinely...

By the end of 2022 the world will be nearly a third of the way through the decade when global emissions are supposed to start falling sharply - the emissions gap needs closing before it becomes a chasm